Dean Scruggs Yarbrough (1903- ) is an African American college professor and sociologist. He was born in Athens, Alabama on January 18, 1903 to Booker T. and Isabella (Mason) Yarbrough. He received an A.B. from Miles College of Birmingham, Alabama in 1923 and a Master of Humanities from Springfield College in Massachusetts in 1925. A year later he married Mary E. Matthews, with whom he would have two children. Yarbrough received his PhD in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934 with a dissertation entitled, "Racial Adjustment in Small Communities." Yarbrough was active in the Urban League in both Ohio and New York City, working as an executive secretary and research assistant from 1930-1934. He also worked for the New York City Emergency Relief Bureau from 1934-1938 and the New York State Employment Service from 1938-1939 before accepting a professorship at Wilberforce University in Ohio in the sociology department. In 1944 he spent a year in Italy as a club director in the American Red Cross Overseas Service. He joined the faculty of the College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce in 1948. Yarbrough has served on a number of commissions and committees, including the Ohio Governor's Committee on Employment Problems of Negroes and the United Negro College Fund.
From the description of Dean S. Yarbrough papers, 1925-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 181099794
